Upton Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878, to a falling aristocratic family. Upton's family was originally an aristocratic family; however, around the time of his birth the family was declining into poverty. Upton graduated high school early, and started college at City College of New York. Then, at age 15, Upton began writing in order to pay for hist tuition. After he graduated from college, he enrolled in Columbia University as a graduate student in 1897.
Upton Sinclair published 5 novels in a period of 5 years, however, none of them made much success. Then, in 1904, the editors of a socialist newspaper Appeal and Reason asked Sinclair to investigate the Chicago stockyards. Sinclair spent 7 weeks in the city's meatpacking plants, learning every possible detail about the working conditions, the home lives of workers, and the how the business was run. Afterwards, Sinclair wrote The Jungle.
When Sinclair brought The Jungle back to Appeal and Reason, they told him that they......
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